Archaeologist Harold Jones uncovered some of the first clues which eventually led to the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley Of The kings by his pals Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon
But he tragically died from tuberculosis a few years before history's greatest find.
To commemorate the centenary his key role has now been celebrated with the unveiling of a plaque outside the Yorkshire home where he was born in Sackville Street, Barnsley, in 1877.
Special guests helping the Barnsley Mayor were today's Lady Carnarvon and Barnsley's BAFTA TV award winning Prof Joann Fletcher, who both earlier gave a talk in the Town Hall.
The plaque was made possible following a joint project between Barnsley Museums, the Barnsley Civic Trust and Immortal Egypt TV star Joann.
But he tragically died from tuberculosis a few years before history's greatest find.
To commemorate the centenary his key role has now been celebrated with the unveiling of a plaque outside the Yorkshire home where he was born in Sackville Street, Barnsley, in 1877.
Special guests helping the Barnsley Mayor were today's Lady Carnarvon and Barnsley's BAFTA TV award winning Prof Joann Fletcher, who both earlier gave a talk in the Town Hall.
The plaque was made possible following a joint project between Barnsley Museums, the Barnsley Civic Trust and Immortal Egypt TV star Joann.
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00:00 Archaeologist Harold Jones uncovered some of the first clues which eventually led to
00:05 the discovery of Tewnk Carmen's tomb in the Valley of the Kings by his pals Howard Carter
00:11 and Lord Carnarvon, but he tragically died from tuberculosis a few years before history's
00:16 greatest find.
00:18 To commemorate the centenary his key role has now been celebrated with the unveiling
00:22 of a blue plaque outside the Orkshire home where he was born in Sackville Street, Barnsley in 1877.
00:30 Special guests helping the Barnsley Mayor were today's Lady Carnarvon and Barnsley's
00:34 BAFTA TV award winning Professor Joanne Fletcher who earlier both gave talks in the Town Hall.
00:41 The plaque was made possible following a joint project between Barnsley Museums, the Barnsley
00:46 Civic Trust and immortal Egypt TV star Joanne.
00:50 Today has been a wonderful day, it's the sort of culmination of almost 20 years research,
00:57 it's sort of a wonderful celebration marking the achievements of this man, Ernest Harold
01:03 Jones who was born in this very house here at the heart of Barnsley and he went on to
01:08 achieve so much in his short life and it was Harold who really did find the very earliest
01:16 clues or recognise the significance of these clues that named a then little known pharaoh
01:21 Tutankhamen so you could say thanks to Harold this path to Tutankhamen truly began and in
01:28 his own quiet modest way he really did lay the foundations for the greatest archaeological
01:35 discovery of all time.
01:37 It was a lovely invitation from Joanne Fletcher to come up and be part of the story, there
01:42 are all these smaller stories which led to the discovery of Tutankhamen which is the
01:47 big story in the headlights if you like in the global lights of the world media but it
01:52 wasn't an overnight success, it was built on many small stories and teamwork and other
01:58 people's discoveries in order to reach the discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb in 1922,
02:03 11 years after he died.
02:05 Joanne Fletcher is the one who has done the work to highlight where Harold was airbrushed
02:13 out of history, what a fantastic job, piece of work she's done.
02:17 (whooshing)